Re: Pearls Before Swine: Talking Technical with Young People

On 6 Jan 2025 15:36:46 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

>
Manually driving a car will become a rare skill, and insurance
policies will either carry expensive riders, or simply not cover
it.

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Perhaps for a while, but after a decade or so manually-driven cars will
be theftproof because the kids stealing cars won't know how to drive.
This will have the effect of reducing insurance costs on some vehicles in
some locations.
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On the subject of the automatomobile I strongly recommend the story "Sally"
by Isaac Asimov.

Indeed.

On my current pass through my great list of possible reads, starting
with the last two James Bond novels, I was pleased to find that
Asimov's /Nightfall and Other Stories/ had finally made it to Kindle.

"Sally" is in /Nightfall and Other Stories/, so I had the pleasure of
reading it recently.
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"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"